Barry Gifford > Quotes

“The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.”
― Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart

“In the picture, Ava Gardner's tousled black hair obscured her right eye, and her full, closed lips were pulled slightly to the right, resulting in something less than a smile. They looked as if they'd been smeared shut with red paint, though the photo was in black and white. It wasn't so much a fuck-me face as a I've-been-there-and-back look, the kind of expression you see only on the most expensive whores.”
― Barry Gifford, Perdita Durango

“The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde.”
― Barry Gifford, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings

“This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe.”
― Barry Gifford, Perdita Durango

“BARRY GIFFORD, Author of "Wild at Heart", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:

"Marisa Lankester's unique chronicle of high crimes and low company is as wild a ride as any reader is likely to be taken on.

She was the lone woman in the eye of a predatory hurricane that blew across continents and devastated countless lives. That she survived is testament to her brains and bravery. The old-timers who invented violence as a second language contended that nothing is deadlier than the female, to cross her was to buck dangerous odds, and this book tells you why."

Film "Wild at Heart" won Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Film by David Lynch”
― Barry Gifford

“We fool ourselves

into thinking

we’re strong

then complain

the rest of our lives

crippled by

the consequences.”
― Barry Gifford

“Romeo gritted his teeth and let the wind hit his face. Believe it, he told himself. Life with this woman will be without apologies.”
― Barry Gifford, Perdita Durango

“Long I lay
in the earth
wondering what
death is worth

Ran the hills
Danced the valleys
Paid the bills
Drank in alleys

Sad the demon
Out the spot
Nothing living
Nothing not”
― Barry Gifford, Coyote Tantras

“Barry Gifford, Author of Wild at Heart, says:

“Marisa Lankester’s unique chronicle of high crimes and low company is as wild a ride as any reader is likely to be taken on. She was the lone woman in the eye of a predatory hurricane that blew across continents and devastated countless lives. That she survived is testament to her brains and bravery. The old-timers who invented violence as a second language contended that nothing is deadlier than the female, to cross her was to buck dangerous odds, and this book tells you why.”
― Barry Gifford

“BARRY GIFFORD, Author of "Wild at Heart" on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:

"Marisa Lankester's unique chronicle of high crimes and low company is as wild a ride as any reader is likely to be taken on. She was the lone woman in the eye of a predatory hurricane that blew across continents and devastated countless lives.

That she survived is testament to her brains and bravery. The old-timers who invented violence as a second language contended that nothing is deadlier than the female, to cross her was to buck dangerous odds, and this book tells you why."

Film "Wild at Heart" won Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Film by David Lynch”
― Barry Gifford

“She let him go.”
― Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart